Motivational Quotes

Business

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

- Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

10.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

11.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

12.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

13.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

14.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

15.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

17.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

19.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

20.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

22.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

24.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

29.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

31.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

32.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

36.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

37.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

38.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

39.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

40.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

41.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

42.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

43.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

44.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

45.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.